SCOTS MAGAZINE. MDCCLXXII I. VOLUME XXXV. Ne quid falfi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. EDINBURGH: Printed by A. MURRAY and J. COCHRAN. To each article is annexed the number of the page of this volume in which it is to be found. 2773 Jan. 6. Gov. Hutchinfon delivers his remarkable fpeech to the Maffachufets-bay affembly, on the dependence of the colonies on the mother-country. 97. 19. A fociety formed at Edinburgh, for relief of honest and industrious poor in and about that city. 23. 20. A dreadful hurricane in many places of Scotland. 103. 27. The Queen of Great Britain delivered of a prince, Auguftus Frederick. 53. 10g. Feb. 2. A duel fougnt, at London, by the Earl Bellamont and the Viscount Townfhend. 29. 17. The Caribbs of St Vincent reduced by Gen. Dalrymple. 175. 220. 23. Gov. Hutchinfon refuses his affent to grants of falaries by the Maffachusets-bay affembly to the judges. 219. Marth 12. Baillie, a condemned criminal, pardoned on condition of his transporting himfelf, but failing to perform, and offering defences against his first fentence being carried into execution, found intitled to have a proof of these defences tried by a jury. 119. 26. A fifth remonftrance of the city of London prefented to the King. 162. April 22. May 27. An earthquake, or a finking or cracking of the earth, at Birches in Shrop fhire. 299. Jane 2. Private confidential letters of Gov. Hutchinfon and others, taken under confideration by the Maffachufets-bay affembly. 413. -- 21. An act passed for establishing certain regulations for the better management of the affairs of the Eaft-India company. 328. 22. A royal naval review at Portfmouth. 281. 19. Mr Thomson admitted minister of St Ninian's in a very uncommon manner. 360.614. Jaly 1. An act paffed for the better preventing the counterfeiting, clipping, and other diminishing the gold coin. 385. — 22. Authors found, by the court of feffion, not to have a perpetual property in their books. 498. 31. A bull iffued by the Pope, fuppreffing the order of Jefuits. 491. Aug. 4. Infanity, even after a verdict returned, fuftained by the court of jnfticiary as a ftay of pronouncing fentence. 445. 9. A vicennial prescription of crimes sustained by the court of justiciary. 443. 23. A riot of the manufacturers in Dublin. 496. Sept. 20. An infurrection at Palermo. 551. 607. 08. 10. The Grand Duke of Ruffia married to the Princess of Heffe- Darmstadt. 558. 15. The Americans refolve to oppofe the fale, or even the landing, of tea fent thither by the Eaft-India company. 664. -- 24. The Duke d'Artois, third grandson to the King of France, married to the Princess Mary of Savoy. 616. Nr. 16. The duchy of Holstein transferred by the Grand Duke of Russia to the King of Denmark. 606. - 19. The treaties with the three partitioning powers ratified by the King of Poland. 659. 24. The marriage of Prince Charles of Sweden with the Princess of Holstein-Gottorp declared. 670. 24. A new church erected in Leith, and to be settled in a manner that may render future feceflion unneceffary. 613, 67. Dec. 13. The Bank of Scotland refolve to apply for leave to increase their capital. 668. CUT away the blue covers, and advertisements stitched in any of the Maga zines; and place this quarter of a fheet, containing the General Title-page, the Chronological Series of Events, the Week-day Table, &c. before the Magazine for January. Place the COPPER ERPLATE, representing a whin-mill, and a house from which horfes may be fed in a farm-yard, fo as to front p. 465. The day of the week on which every month of 1773 began: A help to find the date of any article expreffed as falling on a certain week-day before or after a date mentioned. -The [The 1st, 8th, 15th, 22d, and 29th, of a month, fall on the fame week-day. month-day advances one week-day every common year, and two every leap year: fo, as 1773 and 1774 are both common years, every month-day of the current year will fall on the week-day next after that on which the fame month-day fell lift year.] Notes inclosed thus [ ], for explaining or illuftrating any thing in a paper or extract, are generally our own. Notes added by the authors of the pieces inferted, or by the compilers of the collections from which we take them, are not fo inclosed. Examples of both may be feen, of the first p. 451. and of the second p. 242. of this volume. References made by letters and figures, when no book is named, point to this collection; the letters directing to the volumes, and the figures to the pages: ex. gr. Scots Magazine, vol. xxix. [or Mag. 1767.] p. 651, is thus referred to [xxix. 651.] in this volume, p. 95. col. 1. lin, 43. Vol, i, answers to the year 1739, vol. ii. to 1740, and fo on, a volume every year. ters, point to pages of the volume in which the reference is made. Figures without let 365. 561. 2. delete (throwing away the fraction) Contents (alfo running titles) for CHRISTINA read SOPHIA DOROTHEA - See p. 648. col. 2. l. 45. THE MAGAZINE. SCOTS JANUARY, 1773. CONTENT S. An account of LESMAHAGOW parish 1. PLEASURE heightened by reflecting on paft FLUID COPPE a aftrong poifon 8. Of the ecclefiaftical establishment in AME- O SPLITTING VALUATIONS to create Voles 12. MEAL-MOBS. A particular account of thofe An improvement in SHEEP-MARKING 20. The difpute between Lords TOWNSHEND POETRY. The new-year ode 41. The o» ΣΑ SIR, To the author of the SCOTS MAGAZINE. January 1773. Confider the following fhort account of Lefmahagow as a tribute due to the place of my nativity. At the fame time I hope it will be agreeable to fome of your readers, and be a means of engaging them to favour us with the antiquities to be found in the feve ra parishes in which they refide, or with which they are connected. In this cafe, a far more complete and entertaining history of our country might foon be obtained. [xxxiv. 173.] An account of the antiquities and other curiofities in Lefmahagow parist. ESMAHAGOW is fituate We cannot think Lefmahagow, which in the upper ward of Clydefdale, is fo fweet and delightful, efpecially on thirty computed miles from the water of Nethan, and in those parts Edinburgh, fixteen from Glaf- bounded by the river Clyde, and which gow, and twenty-five or twenty-fix from lies on the inner fide of the famous wall the town of Air, or the western fea. betwixt the two friths, was unknown to It is called Lefmahagow, from les, which the Romans, or unfrequented by them! in Gaelic fignifies a garden, and ferves and what puts this beyond all manner of to point out its pleafant fituation; and doubt, is, that feveral of their urns have Mahagow, from Machute, the ancient been found under large heaps of ftones; guardian faint of the place. and this was the cafe fome years ago at VOL. XXXV. A Auchlochan, |